Live accompaniment by Ben Model, piano.
Join us for a special screening of Max Fleischer’s landmark Out of the Inkwell, a program of silent, animated short films with Koko the Clown. Renowned early animator Max Fleischer and his studio were behind iconic cartoon characters like Betty Boop and Popeye. They also pioneered notable techniques that shaped the history of animation, including the Rotoscope, which made the first realistic animation possible, and the Rotograph, which composited live action with animation, both of which are showcased in this screening. Recent restorations of titles like The Boxing Kangaroo (1920) and Jumping Beans (1922) will be presented thanks to Fleischer’s grand-daughter Jane Fleischer Reid and Mauricio Alvarado.
Ben Model is one of the nation’s leading silent film accompanists, performing on both piano and theater organ. He has created and performed thousands of live scores around the US and the world over the past 40 years, carrying on a tradition he learned from silent film organist Lee Erwin (1919-2000). Ben is also a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater.
Part of the Fall Cine-Concert film series.